Perkeo?................Why not?

Many folk ask where the name Perkeo came from and what it has got to do with a computer and I.T. support company.

Well, the simple answer is "Why Not?" Read on for the longer version.

In 1720, Prince Carl Philipp brought Clemens Pankert from Salurn area of Tyrol in Austria.

Italian speaking. he was said to have been quite an intelligent and assertive sort of person and made a huge career for himself, despite his disability of being rather vertically challenged.

He was made a high-ranking courtier of Prince Carl Philipp of Heidelberg at the beginning of the 18th century.
When he first came to Heidelberg, he was known as “court dwarf” and kept the court amused as a bit of an "oddity".

His pseudonym is said to have derived from his response whenever he was asked if he wanted a glass of wine, his reply would be in Italian perché no? (=Why not?) and the Germans corrupted this in Perkeo.

His task as court master and cupbearer was to watch over the Prince's wine cellar, in particular over the content of the enormous wine barrel of Heidelberg Castle: This was the biggest of four barrels holding a massive 195,000 litres of wine. Weighing up to 230 tons it, is/was the biggest wine barrel in the world.

Perkeo was famous for his wine consumption and it is widely thought to have been the only beverage he consumed during his whole lifetime.

Legend has it that, in his eighties, he became ill for the first time.

A doctor advised him to refrain from drinking wine and to drink water instead.

Despite his fear he followed the advice ............. they say he died the next day.

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